Hi Albert, I tried their IRC channel a few times at different times of the day but didn't get any responses. I didn't want to cross-post but I'll give it a try in the next day or two if I don't hear anything back here.
Thanks for the response, and apologies if my question is slightly OT for this list. Cheers Paul On 8 November 2014 17:46, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote: > Hi, i think this question is probably better suited in the kde-windows > mailing > list than here. > > Have you tried there? > > Cheers, > Albert > > El Dissabte, 8 de novembre de 2014, a les 10:24:02, Paul Manners va > escriure: > > Good day, > > > > I'm wanting to try out the latest version of Okular in Windows. I've > spent > > some time reading though the documentation on KDE for Windows Initiative > > site as well the okular website, forums, IRC and mailing lists. I'm > trying > > to find a path of least resistance but the details I've found are from > > posts that go back quite some time, so I'm not sure of their validity. > The > > same goes for the documentation, where the timestamps when they were last > > modified are also from a few years back. > > > > My findings so far are: > > > > - There's no new release of KDE for Windows that includes the latest > > version of Okular. The last release was May 2013 with KDE 4.10.2. It's > > not clear to me if this project has gone into hibernation or if it's just > > that there have been build issues and bugs along the way with the more > > recent version of KDE. Either way, it appears I would have to do a > custom > > build of KDE 4.14.2 in order to get the latest release of Okular on > Windows. > > > > - With doing a build in Windows, the key thing to me seems to be the > choice > > of build system: either MSVC or MinGW. I don't see any theoretical > reason > > why the latest version of VS (2013) would not work, but from my research > > one would definitely not want to go with anything less than VS2008 or > > VS2010. Use of the emerge tool seems to be the way to go. I'm most > > familiar with GNU tool chain so that would be my preference, but was not > > able to find out whether there is less pain going the GNU or MS route. I > > do have a requirement to make this work in OS X, but that is only > something > > I will look at in the future and dependent on whether I can test Okular > out > > in Windows. > > > > Any pointers or validation of my current assessment of the situation > would > > be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Okular-devel mailing list > Okular-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel >
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